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Quarrel over Swammerdam's Posthumous Works
Inbunden, 2023
2244 kr
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The Quarrel over Swammerdam’s Posthumous Works reconstructs the vicissitudes of Johannes Swammerdam’s Biblia naturae, a pivotal collection of writings in the history of science. Bequeathed to the polymath Melchisédech Thévenot, the manuscripts and drawings of the treatises constituting this …
Arnold Geulincx Ethics
With Samuel Beckett's Notes
Av Han van Ruler, Anthony Uhlmann m. fl.
Inbunden, 2006
2234 kr
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Arnold Geulincx (1624-1669) is a key figure in the history of ideas, whose concepts have been seen as precursors to those developed by Spinoza, Malebranche, Leibniz and Kant. His Ethics presents a treatment of virtue from the standpoint of occasionalist metaphysics. The great Irish writer Samuel …
Anglo-Saxon Prognostics, 900-1100
Study and Texts
Inbunden, 2007
2726 kr
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Recent scholarship on the Anglo-Saxon prognostics has tried to place these texts within the realm of folklore and medicine, inspired largely by studies and editions from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By analysing prognostic material in its manuscript context, this book offers a …
John Stewart of Baldynneis Roland Furious
A Scots Poem in its European Context
Av Donna Heddle
Inbunden, 2007
2726 kr
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The poetry of John Stewart of Baldynneis, one of James VI's soi disant Castalian Band, is a relatively unknown phenomenon of the Renaissance period. This book is a critical edition of his epic poem Roland Furious, supposedly a translation of Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso into Scots but …
Beda Mayr, Vertheidigung der katholischen Religion (1789)
Sammt einem Anhange von der Möglichkeit einer Vereinigung zwischen unserer, und der evangelisch-lutherischen Kirche
Inbunden, 2009
2620 kr
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The monastic erudition of the old religious orders was a pillar of the Catholic Enlightenment within the Holy Roman Empire and many other European countries. Despite the enormous importance the monks had as champions of programmatic Enlightenment ideas, few of their original texts are available in …
James of Viterbo: De regimine Christiano
A Critical Edition and Translation
Inbunden, 2009
2489 kr
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James of Viterbo’s De regimine Christiano was produced at the height of the great conflict of 1296–1303 between Pope Boniface VIII and Philip the Fair of France. Echoing and elaborating Boniface’s Bull Unam sanctam, the treatise is a detailed and rigorous defence of the ‘hierocratic’ ideology of …
Angelo Poliziano's Lamia
Text, Translation, and Introductory Studies
Inbunden, 2010
2472 kr
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In 1492, Angelo Poliziano published his Lamia, a praelectio, or opening oration to a course he would teach that academic year on Aristotle’s Prior Analytics at the Florentine university. Having heard murmurings that he was not philosopher enough to teach the Aristotelian text, Poliziano strikes …
Anatomy of Despondency
European Socio-Cultural Criticism 1789–1939
Inbunden, 2011
3653 kr
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Socio-cultural criticism is the continuous assessment and evaluation of developments within democratic society and hence a vital ingredient of democracy itself. Departing from the French Revolution, this study focuses upon a tradition of European criticism. On the whole, critics accepted that …
Agostino Nifo De intellectu
Av Leen Spruit
Inbunden, 2011
3012 kr
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In 1503, Nifo published De intellectu, the major work of his early career, touching on questions of philosophical psychology. Based on a detailed assessment of the views of his predecessors, Nifo in this work presented an analysis of the main issues of Peripatetic noetics, namely origin and …
Vatican Manuscript of Spinoza’s Ethica
Inbunden, 2011
2393 kr
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Brill authors Leen Spruit and Pina Totaro discovered the original manuscript of Spinoza's "Ethica" in the Vatican library. This spectacular discovery attracted a lot of media attention.The Vatican codex, which contains the complete text of Spinoza’s Ethics, is the only surviving manuscript of this …
Adriaan Koerbagh, A Light Shining in Dark Places, to Illuminate the Main Questions of Theology and Religion
Inbunden, 2011
3023 kr
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Ever since it was first written, Adriaan Koerbagh's anti-Christian work, A Light Shining in Dark Places, has been nearly inaccessible. Had it been known during the Enlightenment, it would have been a great inspiration to radical thinkers. However, it was suppressed and the author died in jail. The …
Johannes Hoornbeeck (1617-1666), On the Conversion of Indians and Heathens
An Annotated Translation of De conversione Indorum et gentilium (1669)
Av Ineke Loots, Joke Spaans m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
2348 kr
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Exploration, trade and conquest expanded and upset traditional worldviews of early modern Europeans. Christians saw themselves confronted with a largely heathen world. In the wake of Iberian colonization, Jesuits successfully christianized heathen populations overseas. In his De conversione Indorum …
Humanist Interpretation of Hieroglyphs in the Allegorical Studies of the Renaissance
With a Focus on the Triumphal Arch of Maximilian I
Av Karl Giehlow, Robin Raybould
Inbunden, 2015
3063 kr
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The Hieroglyphenkunde by Karl Giehlow published in 1915, described variously by critics as “a masterpiece”, “magnificent”, “monumental” and “incomparable”, is here translated into English for the first time. Giehlow’s work with an initial focus on the Hieroglyphica of Horapollo, the manuscript of …
Ancient Libraries and Renaissance Humanism
The De bibliothecis of Justus Lipsius
Inbunden, 2017
2524 kr
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Winner of the 2018 Josef IJsewijn Prize for Best Book on a Neo-Latin TopicAlthough many humanists, from Petrarch to Fulvio Orsini, had written briefly about library history, the De bibliothecis of Justus Lipsius was the first self-contained monograph on the topic. The De bibliothecis proved to be a …
Hadriaan Beverland's De Peccato Originali (On Original Sin 1679)
An Annotated Edition and Translation
Av Hadriaan Beverland (1650-1716), Karen Eline Hollewand m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
2075 kr
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In his De peccato originali (1679), Hadriaan Beverland (1650-1716) presented his thesis that sex was the original sin and a vital part of human nature. Building on contemporary insights into the history of the text of the Bible, he criticised the hypocritical attitudes among the religious and …
Chrysostomus Javelli’s Epitome of Aristotle’s Liber de bona fortuna
Examining Fortune in Early Modern Italy
Av Valérie Cordonier, Tommaso De Robertis
Inbunden, 2021
3171 kr
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In this book, Valérie Cordonier and Tommaso De Robertis provide the first study, along with edition and translation, of Chrysostomus Javelli’s epitome of the Liber de bona fortuna (1531), the famous thirteenth-century Latin compilation of the chapters on fortune taken from Aristotle’s Magna Moralia …
Crocologia – A Detailed Study of Saffron, the King of Plants
Av Sally Francis, Maria Teresa Ramandi
Inbunden, 2020
3210 kr
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In Crocologia – A Detailed Study of Saffron, the King of Plants, Sally Francis and Maria Teresa Ramandi present the first translation into English of Johann Ferdinand Hertodt’s seminal 1671 work Crocologia, a book uniquely devoted to the medical uses of saffron. Hertodt discusses saffron’s origin, …
Antonio da Rho, Three Dialogues against Lactantius
Dialogi tres in Lactentium Critical Latin Edition, English Translation, Introduction, and Notes
Av David Rutherford, Paul Schulten
Inbunden, 2023
3456 kr
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Antonio da Rho’s Three Dialogues against Lactantius (1445) followed the lead of Jerome and Augustine yet went well beyond patristic concerns. During the Middle Ages Lactantius’ works, while largely neglected, had enjoyed moments of intense interest and study. From the death of Lactantius (325) to …
Nicolaus Viti Gozzius: In primum librum Artis rhetoricorum Aristotelis commentaria
Uses of Aristotle’s Rhetoric in the Late Renaissance
Av Gorana Stepanić, Pavel Gregorić
Inbunden, 2023
2140 kr
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This is a critical edition of Nikola Vitov Gučetić’s (1549–1610) Commentary on the First Book of Aristotle’s ‘Rhetoric’, with an introductory study and supplementary materials. The purpose of the edition is to provide a clear Latin text for scholars and students of the humanities, especially …
Astrological Works of Jean Thenaud
Critical French Edition, English Translation, Introduction, and Notes
Inbunden, 2025
2080 kr
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This critical edition highlights the astrological writings of Jean Thenaud, a sixteenth-century astrologer at the French court who served Louise of Savoy and her son, King Francis I. Thenaud’s works provide a rare glimpse into the intense fascination with astrology at the Renaissance court, …
Johann Ludwig von Wolzogen’s Philosophical and Political Thought
A Confrontation with the Ideas of Descartes and Szlichtyng, with Selected Translations
Av Przemysław Gut, Marcin Iwanicki m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
1959 kr
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This volume presents the first English translations of the writings of Johann Ludwig von Wolzogen (c. 1599–1661)—theologian, philosopher, and mathematician—who emerged as one of the leading figures of the Polish Brethren, also known as the Socinians or Arians. It highlights Wolzogen’s distinctive …
